Nick
many thanks. That's exactly what I was looking for.
Joseph
--- In [email protected], "Nick Cox" <n.j.cox@d...> wrote:
> You could make use of -order-
> or -move-.
>
> order *1 *2
>
> See help on -order-.
>
> Nick
> n.j.cox@d...
>
> jockmcdock@n...
> >
> > I have a tab-separated data set which contains a number of
> > dates entered as strings. Converting the strings to dates is
> > no problem using the 'date' function, but the new variable is
> > added to the end of the data set. For example, if I have a
> > data set that has the following variables
> >
> > id stringdate1 info1 stringdate2 info2
> >
> > (where the stringdates are dates encoded as strings) and I
> > cast the strings into real dates (and delete the strings), I
> > end up with a data set that looks like
> >
> > id info1 info2 realdate1 realdate2
> >
> > Not a problem for a data set with five columns, but real data
> > sets are much broader. In any case, it would be nice to keep
> > all the '1' data items together etc.
> >
> > Can I convert data 'in place' or move columns back to their
> > 'original' positions?
> >
>
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